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Despite my disagreements with AnssiH, I think he has done an admirable job of explaining the purpose of the philosophy of science. If you read Anssi's last few posts, particularly to me, it's mostly what is discussed. Where a physics theory hints at some ontology, it never seems to describe that ontology with much more than a metaphor. It almost purposefully strips itself of such pursuits.
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I think the disconnect between the two of you is right here in the statement, 'Where a physics theory hints at some ontology'. Unless I'm completely mistaken, a physics theory is an interpretation of the ontology. In other words, something exists of which we are aware. We build a theory to explain it. The theory doesn't create or change the ontology of it, it just attempts to describe it. So, in a very real sense, isn't a theory just a metaphor that attempts to describe some ontology?
